Transportation

Welcome to the Transportation Department
Our Vision

The
goal of Rome City School District's transportation department is to
provide safe and reliable transportation for all students eligible to
attend our schools. Our bus drivers and monitors are trained and
certified in public transportation services, as well as prepared for any
scenario that may happen. We are constantly looking to improve our
services and staff, and take steps each and every day to do so, so that
in the end your child receives the best worry-free transportation
services possible.

The
transportation operation at the Rome City School District coordinates
the transportation for more than 5,500 students daily within the
district's nearly 100 square miles. This includes more than 114
regular-education student trips, twice a day, to and from the school
district's six elementary schools, an upper elementary school, a middle
school and the high school. In addition, the transportation operation
also serves the district's special needs students, parochial school
students, English as a second language (ESL) students, daily student
shuttles and various before-school and after school programs.

The
district applies a "double trip" procedure to many bus routes, such as
transporting high school students to Rome Free Academy and then
sending the same bus to transport elementary students to their
respective schools. This plan makes the most use of our school buses
and the staggered starting times for different grade levels and
buildings.

The
total transportation staff includes both bus drivers and bus monitors
employed by the Rome City School District as well as the Birnie Bus
Co., Inc.